Apple's Servers Hacked by 16-Year-Old

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A 16-year-old Melbourne private schoolboy hacked Apple's servers for more than a year, and it is now facing criminal charges after the Cupertino, California-based tech giant contacted the FBI to report the hack.

The Age reports today that a 16-year-old Australian kid from Melbourne repeatedly hacked Apple's servers from his suburban home because he proclaims himself as the biggest fan of the company and thought he's doing a good thing.

During the hacking sessions, the Australian teen reportedly had downloaded about 90GB of secure files, including extremely secure authorised keys that grant log-in access to users, and accessed multiple user accounts.

He was caught last year by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) after a raid on his home, but everything was kept secret until now the teen is well known in the international hacking communit and he could be exposed to risk.

"Two Apple laptops were seized and the serial numbers matched the serial numbers of the devices which accessed the internal systems,” said a prosecutor. "A mobile phone and hard drive were also seized and the IP address matched the intrusions into the organisation."